[Web4lib] Wikipedia vs Britannica

[Rebecca Ryan]

Get off or be thrown off? That is the single best confirmation to Chuck's
point of view I can imagine....

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Tennant [mailto:roy.tennant at ucop.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:46 AM
To: Web4Lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Wikipedia vs Britannica

At the risk of dragging out the Discussion That Will Never End yet further,
I feel I must respond to the comment that perhaps Nature wants us to
broadcast the full-text of their articles to whatever mailing list we
choose. Their policy at <http://www.nature.com/common/ legal_notice.html>
states

"Unless you have Macmillan's prior written permission, you are not permitted
to copy, broadcast, make available to the public, download, store (in any
medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way the
material (or any part of it) contained on this Web Site for any purpose
whatsoever."

Seems pretty clear to me. But then I'm a capitalist pig apologist.

In the end, it is the policy of this discussion that list members will not
knowingly and willingly violate the law using this discussion list as their
means. Period. Adhere to it, get off, or be thrown off.
Roy

On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Chuck0 wrote:

> Drew, Bill wrote:
>> Being for open sharing of information does not mean opposition to 
>> copyright.  Just because you disagree just not necessarily mean it is 
>> right and prudent to support posting of an entire article here.  Such 
>> posting is clearly not fair use.
>
> Again, that is your opinion. But why do you feel compelled to defend 
> the copyright of an organization you don't work for? Is Nature paying 
> you to enforce their copyright? Did it ever occurr to you that perhaps 
> Nature wants people to share articles on lists?
>
> Stop being such a legalist literalist!
>
> Are you another barrier to information like most librarians are these 
> days?
>
> Chuck
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